... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.
Tracy KidderMost teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.
Tracy Kidder